In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe best of women are hypocrites.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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